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The Garden

... wholesome. Take care that the plants do not seed about the garden, though. Fruit.—Blackberries.—Some may laugh the idea of cultivating such a common thing the blackberry ; our American cousins, however, who are far more wide-a-wako than we are in good ...

Published: Friday 21 December 1888
Newspaper: Western Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 913 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

The Farm

... and with satisfactory prices for producticn. Cultivated blackberries, strawberries, and raspberries are among the principal crops produced by the associates. They sold over million quarts blackberries this year. A Use for Mangold Tops.—Mr. Pringle, Norfolk ...

Published: Friday 14 December 1888
Newspaper: Western Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 738 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

GARDENING GOSSIP

... grafted low down, and carefully grown, these soon become very handsome objects. Blackberries. —Some may laugh at the idea of cultivating such common thing as the blackberry ; our American cousins, however, who arc far more wide-a-wake than we are in good ...

JOHN W. SPEAR

... to cqt the Duke's wood down altogether, but only to lop oft the overhanging branches, and to remove the undergrowth and blackberry bushes near the banks. Report says, however, that it would have proved an eye-sore to the landowner on the other side of ...

Published: Friday 14 December 1888
Newspaper: Tavistock Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 356 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LORD MONKSWELL AND LIBERAL UNIONISTS

... openir of the Rochester Liberal Club, said, in reterring to Lil Unionists, “although the leaders were as plentiful as fol blackberries, their fe lowers are only the tag-rag and bob- recently-created ngaage this from the inheritor of a Lord Monkswell’s father— ...

Published: Friday 14 December 1888
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 630 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

AGRICULTURAL ITEMS,

... with satisfactory pfcm; for production. Cultivated blackberries, strawberries, and raspberries are among the principal crops produced by the associates. They sold over 21 million quarto of blackberries this year. BOIT raw TILLAGE OPERATIONS (says the ...

Published: Friday 14 December 1888
Newspaper: Tavistock Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1461 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ENGLISH FARMING AND ENGLISH FISCAL POLICY

... England is tbe wild blackberry of our hedges. The fruit costs nothing at all, and it can gathered persons whose labour has no money value. If a working man sends his children into tbe fields and they bring home a basket of blackberries he gets the fruit ...

Published: Saturday 08 December 1888
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Chronicle
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: | Words: 2606 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

POACHERS AND POACHING

... Pbilolog'Sts may trace a resemblance between the present provincial word mooching, aud Shakespeare's mitcher, who ate blackberries. Of the three probably the largest amount of business is done by the local inen, on the principal that ihe sitting gamester ...

Published: Saturday 08 December 1888
Newspaper: Cheltenham Chronicle
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 780 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

DU titan, proral wan, Dreat in a little brief antbority ; Most ignoraut of what he s most assured, • • • • • ..

... meeting, but, an amateur detective, speaks from information I received . and then come the angry adjectives, thick as blackberries, mean, false, base, infamous, Lc., ix. When men had recovered their breath, after reading this awful inanifeto ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1888
Newspaper: Trowbridge Chronicle
County: Wiltshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 800 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE BETTING EPIDEMIC

... but their own. This simply means that if it pays better to lose than win they do so, and yet noodles are as plentiful as blackberries to back horses to win, knowing nothing of owners’ intentions. To reasoners and thinkers the fact of the bookmakers making ...

ADVERTISER FOR SOMERSET

... On the 26th ult. three fullyexpanded primroses were gathered on the Bristol and Bridgwater highway near Sydoot, and, as blackberries were still lingering upon the same line of hedgerow, it would have been possible to combine at the same moment the joys ...

Published: Thursday 20 December 1888
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 2571 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

(Possmsump sy Seeorr ARRANGRNENT.] CRADLED IN A STORM: A STORY OF GAUNCHESTER-HAUGH. THEODORE A. THARP, Author ..

... of a rainy day. My shoes and stockings are soaking wet before I have half crossed the swishy meadows to get to the best blackberry brakes: but I am regardless as a ¥oung gipsy of such a tr(iifle a 8 t.hu.mll wander along or some time picking and eating ...

Published: Thursday 27 December 1888
Newspaper: Devizes and Wilts Advertiser
County: Wiltshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4379 | Page: 3 | Tags: none